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(See Rina)

Unit of free air flow rate. Normal cubic meter per hour. The air in the following conditions:1.013 bar(a) of pressure; 0 degrees Celsius of temperature and 0% of relative humidity .

Turkish Lloyd's (Class Society)

Air that is taken from the outdoors.

A drawing representing the internal parts of a vessel as if she had been cut straight through, either longitudinally or athwartships. It shows the positions of the frames and their exact curvature in relation to the hull shape.

A means of hauling up or lowering a cylindrical object.

(IOC)A type of futures or option order which gives the trading crowd one opportunity to take the other.

Drill.

Marine Industries Forum (EC)

A document that establishes the terms of a contract between a shipper and a transportation company. It serves as a document of title, a contract of carriage and a receipt for goods.

Standards For Training Certification and Watchkeeping (IMO Convention)

To allow or augment the natural movement of cooler air from exterior, shaded areas of a building through or around a building.

Foaming water that rises upward immediately before stem of any craft being propelled through water.

Defense Energy Support Center

A solar absorber surface that has high absorbtance at wavelengths corresponding to that of the solar spectrum and low emittance in the infrared range.

The bottom of the mast, with a shape designed to fit into the mast step.

Also known as LTL or LCL.

Transport International par la Route. Road transport operating agreement among European governments and the United States for the international movement of cargo by road. Display of the TIR carnet allows sealed containerloads to cross national frontiers w ...

A generic term for measures of resistance to extension of a crack. The term is sometimes restricted to results of fracture mechanics tests, which are directly applicable in fracture control. However, the term commonly includes results from simple tests of ...